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Wondering about my golf game.
I played what passes for golf on Sunday. And when I got home, one of my longtime friends had sent the accompanying video to my inbox. I think he was trying to tell me something about my game. Now I’ve...
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No further can kicking needed. Undocumented immigrants can be California...
As concerns the case of the undocumented wanna-be California lawyer Sergio Garcia — it took about a month to get some kind of a resolution. In September, following oral argument, I wondered whether...
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Time overtakes the telling.
“What we see isn’t what we see but what we are.” - Fernando Pessoa Four lives and as Grandma Moses said,“Life is what we make it.” First up, the past week there was another instance of endemic...
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Unread law reviews. Not keeping up and not really paying attention.
So New York Times lawyer turned columnist Adam Liptak again revisits the continuing irrelevance of law reviews at “The Lackluster Reviews That Lawyers Love to Hate.” He cites new studies that...
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It’s not “a small world, after all”— for earworms.
Earlier this year, an $8,000 judgment in Santa Ana, California drew national media attention not so much because of the amount or because of the merits of the suit — even if one law professor expressed...
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State v. Terrence Miller – on being “shuffled along on a criminal-justice...
“Sadly, today the majority holds that the right to effective assistance of counsel guarantees nothing more than the presence of an appointed attorney at counsel’s table . . . .” Client, ‘I hardly knew...
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Sriracha and “public nuisance”— but the hot stuff lives on.
There’s nothing like the smell of fresh chiles in the morning. Having once been a molcajete grinding chilihead boiling up a passel of fresh chile peppers and tomatoes, I know how good capsaicin is at...
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“Nobody likes a rat” and the myth of self-regulation.
James Cagney Never Said “You Dirty Rat . . . .“ “Nobody likes a rat.” That was the money quote from the “Arizona Republic’s” four installment series on prosecutorial misconduct that ran at the end of...
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Ken Anderson sentenced to 0.1095% of what he gave Michael Morton.
That Texas State Judge who as a Williamson County D.A. oversaw the 1987 wrongful murder conviction of Michael Morton and who was then subsequently charged with deliberately withholding evidence and...
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Hallelujah for “Stand up for Heroes.”
Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day and taking a moment to reflect, I wanted to post a remembrance, courtesy of this morning’s CBS Sunday Morning segment, “Band of brothers.”...
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Caginess, coincidence, and CLE.
Caginess or coincidence? No matter. It’s all good. Four years after the ABA made changes to its Professional Conduct Model Rule concerning the “Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor” and eighteen...
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Only the short pointy end hurts.
There are risks lawyers take when they chance even the gentlest of criticisms of a judge. For a recent example, remember Paul Ogden, the lawyer facing a one-year suspension for a private email...
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Meaningless amazement.
This week, there’ll be much to amaze. Come Thursday, there’ll be a lot of “amazing” turkeys — with “amazing” stuffing — “amazing” yams — “amazing” green bean casserole — and of course, “amazing”...
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Hot sauce, the bluntly amazing and FREE CLE.
I don’t Twitter. And I don’t always keep up with the posts percolating in my head — supposedly on their eventual way to publication. So for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been meaning to post some...
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Quick adds on Ken Anderson & prosecutorial misconduct.
Turns out former prosecutor and ex-judge Ken Anderson only ended up serving a mere 5 days of a 10-day sentence for contempt of court in connection with the wrongful prosecution of an innocent man,...
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Didn’t win the lottery — but the odds are still favorable for FREE CLE.
Well, I won’t be splitting the Mega Millions with anyone. I didn’t win last night’s gazillion dollars. But then since I forgot to buy a ticket — I can’t complain about not winning the $636 million Mega...
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Email scam results in lawyer’s trifecta of trouble.
Speaking of lotteries — anytime a stranger sends you email congratulations, “You’ve won!” — hit the delete key. Easy money come-ons have circulated online for years. All the same, a version of a...
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Year-end Book Lists.
This is the time of year when all the year-end “Best” lists start appearing — best restaurants, best songs, best movies and best books of 2013. Ordinarily I don’t agree with most of the choices on...
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“Homey don’t play dat.” Riffing on the year-end divide.
It wasn’t in my Christmas stocking so I’m looking to the New Year to gift myself the Devil’s attorney app for my smart phone. Not that I’m any kind of gamer. With apologies to all my defense bar...
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No surprise – California high court follows Legislature and admits...
Since the California State Legislature took matters into its own hands and passed AB 1024 allowing applicants who satisfy admission requirements — but who are not lawfully present in the United States...
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